is there no official working guide of installing BT5R2-KDE-32 persistent USB?

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The offical wiki guide to install BT5 persistent USB does not apply to BT5R2-KDE-32?

I have been trying to install BT5R2-KDE-32.iso to my 8GB flash drive using http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...Persistent_USB but after getting to this point, and after the computer churns for a few minutes after initially entering the command it gives errors. The input and output is below, please review.

Perhaps the guide simply does not apply to BT5R2-KDE-32 and there is no guide for new users to install it from linux? Last time I used Unetbootin I was advised to use Persistent USB with fdisk instead...

I successfully installed BT5R2-KDE-32 with Unetbootin as per the guide on the Wiki but when running live it would take a long long time to start, seemed buggy freezing, hanging for over 10 minutes after logging off and doing a sudo shutdown -h now, and eveutally it would not start up at all.

I then downloaded BT5-KDE-32 and installed successfully using the guide at the start of this thread but it just gave me a 'boot:' prompt when I tried to boot from USB.

Tried installing BT5-KDE-32 again after confirming the MD5, but this time when trying to boot I saw:

Code:

Error: file not found
grub rescue>

I then installed it using Windows USB Universal Installer but on trying the same I would just see some information on syslinux and then a 'boot:' prompt.

I am not sure where to go from here, please advise!

Last edited by dusf345; 03-10-2012 at 07:58 AM.
Reason: More information.

Re: is there no official working guide of installing BT5R2-KDE-32 persistent USB?

Just installed BT5r2 to 8Gb sdhc card inserted into USB slot card reader with No problems.
Using Hp laptop with a faulty sd slot hence the USB slot card reader. Laptop running Ubuntu
sd card setup as a single partion formated fat32.
Run Unetbooting and set persistant 3000
When finished Inserted SD card into eeepc netbook and it boots and runs OK

Re: is there no official working guide of installing BT5R2-KDE-32 persistent USB?

Originally Posted by muts

Your output says it all, a more careful read would have pointed out the issue:

rsync: write failed on "/mnt/sdf1/casper/filesystem.squashfs": No space left on device (28)

Try using +3000M instead of +2500 for backtrack 5 r2.

I did see that error, but as someone new to BT, although not to linux, I still did not know exactly what to resize or how doing so would affect everything else. Thanks for explaining to me yesterday on IRC, and I mailed you earlier as per your request to confirm that it has solved the problem, please update the wiki for others with the same problem, and the included solution to the one I am about to outline.

BT5R2-KDE, although installed still did not boot, instead displaying the following error message:

press the enter key at the 'boot' prompt. much like you would using hiren's. i was expecting something more complicated at first, as well. hope this helps.

This did not work for me this time with BT5R2-KDE, or last time with BT5-KDE, but I was able to resolve it by copying vesamenu.c32 from the native linux filesystem on my computer, and pasting it replacing vesamenu.c32 in /isolinux and /syslinux although I am not sure whether one or both is required. I have read online, but nowhere on backtrack-linux.org, that this fixes the problem due to some discrepancy between the version of syslinux and the version of boot.cat.

Originally Posted by thorin

Why did /mnt/sdf1 already exist when you tried to create it? Did you try ls'ing it before you used it as a mount point? Did you try this process multiple times?

This existed already because I had been trying many many times to get BT installed on the flash drive

Originally Posted by thorin

Before trying your rsync it might be a good move to do a "df -h" to ensure you have the expected amount of free space.

That's just it, to the best of my knowledge 2500M was the correct amount of space as that's the value that's stipulated in the guide. I appreciate all the guides at my fingertips here provided by the community, but if people asking for help with install problems are brushed off and referred to wiki guides said guides should at least be accurate and up to date!

Originally Posted by F3L1X

Have you not tried unetbootin? It comes with backtrack and rarely fails to work. Applications > Other > unetbootin

Thanks but yes, please see my original post:

Originally Posted by dusf345

Last time I used Unetbootin I was advised to use Persistent USB with fdisk instead...

I successfully installed BT5R2-KDE-32 with Unetbootin as per the guide on the Wiki but when running live it would take a long long time to start, seemed buggy freezing, hanging for over 10 minutes after logging off and doing a sudo shutdown -h now, and eveutally it would not start up at all.

BT5R2-KDE? Also, I was having problems with the persistent install on a dual partition flash drive.

Originally Posted by parrotface

Run Unetbooting and set persistant 3000

Did you try the rsync method I was having problems with, or just Unetbootin? The Unetbootin install was buggy for me, and there's not exactly much an enduser can mess up installing!

The only problems now are that BT5R2-KDE seems to run slow often freezing for up to a minute and sometimes indefinitely so that I have to remove the power to my computer to restart it. Also, is selecting log off and then at the bash prompt entering poweroff, shutdown -h now, shutdown now the correct method? All cause the computer to hang indefinitely on the BT red splashscreen, or sometimes hang on a small underscore ( _ ) top left of an otherwise empty black screen.

Last edited by dusf345; 03-16-2012 at 10:52 AM.
Reason: Replying to F3L1X

Re: is there no official working guide of installing BT5R2-KDE-32 persistent USB?

I found similar behavior with slow responsiveness and instabilities in persistent mode by using "LinuxLive USB Creator" which until now has worked like a charm creating persistent mode Backtrack drives.

Re: is there no official working guide of installing BT5R2-KDE-32 persistent USB?

Originally Posted by DamagedPacket

I found similar behavior with slow responsiveness and instabilities in persistent mode by using "LinuxLive USB Creator" which until now has worked like a charm creating persistent mode Backtrack drives.

Which images have you had problems with specifically? Have you tried BT5R2-KDE-32? I will try gnome if I have to, but being honest I have not finished looking for a solution.